West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-11-17

ing, put ms adroit hand upon the keys and
! changed the painful inharmony into glorious
cadence. Then Bach turned and gave salu.
tation TO the host who had invited him.
But the worst OF all discords is moral dis
cord. III society and the world are painfully
discordant to imperfec ct man, what must they
be TO n perfect Godi People try to define
what sin is. IL seems 10 mo that sin Is get
ting out of harmony with God, disagree
ment with His holiness, with His purity, with
His love, with His commands: our will clash.
ing with His will, the finite dashing against
the infinite, the frail against the puissant the
created against the Creator III thousand
musicians, with flute, and cornet a-piston,
and trumpet, and violoncello, and hautboys,
and trombone, and all tho wind and stringed
instruments that ever gathered I'm . Dussel-
dorf jubilee, should resolve that they woulf
play out OF tune and put concord TO the rack.
ana make the place wild with shrieking, and
grazing, and rasping sounds, they could not
make such pandemonium as that which
RACES i'm sinful soul when God listens to the
play OF ats thoughts, passions and emotions
dlscord, lifelong discord, maddenng dscord
4 Inc world pays more for discord than it
does Tor consonance High prices have been
paid FOR music. One man gave S22j TO hear
the Swedish songstress in new York. and an
other S69o to hear her i'm Boston. and another
Sooo TO hear her in Providence. Fabulous
prices have been paid for sweet sounds but
Tar moro has been paid for discord. The
Crimean war cost 81 ECO 900 OOD and orr
american cival war over 80. 500, OOO, 600 and
tne war debts OF professed Christian nations
are about SIS. 900, 0OO, 600 The world navs
Tor this red ticket, which admits it to the
saturnalia of broken bones and death a1o
mics, and destroyed cities, and plowed graves.
ana crushed hearts, any amount of monev
Satan asks Discordl Discordl
But / have to tell you that the song
a ahat the she . morning stars sang, together
stone is TO be resumed again. Mozart's
greatest overture was composed one night
when he was several times overpowered with
ssleeP, and artists say they can tell the places
In the music where he was falling asleep and
the places where he awakened So the over
ture OF the morning stars spoken of i'm nv
text has been asleep, but it will awaken and
oe more grandly rendered by the evening
stars or the worlds existence than by the
morning stars, and the vespers will be
sweeter than the mathis. The work OF all
good men and women and of all good
churches and all reform associations Is to
bring the race back to the original harmony
The rebellious heart to be attuned, social life
TO be attuned, commercial ethics to be at
tuned, Internationally to be attuned, hemis-
pheres to be attuned-but by what force
and in what wayl
In olden time the choristers had n tuning
iork with two prongs, and they would strike
IL on the back OF pew or music rack and nut
~ TO the ear and then start the tune, and all
ehe other voices would join. In modern or
chestra the leader has a complete instrument
rightly attuned, and he sounds that and all
the other performers turn the KEYS of their
instruments to make them correspond and
sou a the DOW over tho string, and listen,
and sound out over again, until all the KEYS
are screwed to concert pitch and the dis
cords melt into one great symphony, and the
curtain hoists, and the baton taps and audi
ences are raPtured with Schumanns para
disc and the Peril or RoSsinis 'Stabat Matters
or Bach's "Magnificatn i'm ID, or Gounod's
Redemption"
Now, our world can never be attuned by
an imperfect instrument Even a Cremona
would not do. Heaven has ordained the only
instrument, and il is made out of the wood OF
the cross, and the voices that accompany it
are imported voices, cantatrices of the first
christmas night, when heaven serenaded the
earth with GLORY TO God in the highest and
on earth peace, good will to men," Lest we
start too far Off and get lost in generalities
we had better begin with ourselves get our
own hearts and life in harmony with the
eternal Christ Oh, for His almighty snirit
to attune us, to chord our will with his will.
to modulate our life with his life. and bring
us into unison with all that is pure and self
sacrificing and heavenly. The strings OF our
nature are all broken and twisted and the
bow is so slack it cannot evoke ANYTHING mel
lifiuous The instrument made for heaven to
play on mas been roughly twanged and struck
by influences worldly and demonac. o,
master hand of Christ, restore this split and
fractured and despoiled and unstrung nature
until IL shall wall out for this sin, and then
thrill with divine pardon.
Inc whole world must also be attunel by
the same power. A few DAYS ago | was in
the Fairbanks weighing scale manufactory
OF Vermont. Six hundred hands, and they
have never had a strike. Complete harmony
between labor and capital, the operatives of
scores OF years in their beautiful homes near
by the mansions OF the manufacturers whose
invention and Christian behavior made the
great enterprise. So all the world over labor
ard capital will be brought into euphony.
Y on may have heard what is chilled the UAn-
I nv nr-ff
played by hammers, great and small now
with mighty stroke, and now with heavy
stroke, beating great iron anvil. That Is
what the world has got to come to-anyiI
chorus, yard stick chorus, shuttle chorus.
trowel chorus, crowbar chorus, pickax
chorus, gold mine chorus, rail track chorus
locomotive chorus. lt can be done. and it
VIII De done. 30 all social life will BE- at
he as many classes in society as
now, but the classes will not be reeu-
lated by birth, or wealth, or accident.
but by the scale of virtue and benevolencc,
and people will be assigned to their PLACES
as good, or. very good, or most ex-
cellent So also, commercial life will he
attuned, and there Will be twelve in every
dozen and sixteen ounces in every pound,
and apples at the bottom OF the barrel will Ice
as sound as those on top, and silk goods will
not be cotton, and sellers will not have 70
charge honest people more than the right
price because Others will not pay, and goods
VIII come TO you corresponding with the
sample ny which you purchased them, and
conee viii not be chickoried aud sugar will
not be sanded, AMI r1ik will not be chalked
and adulteration of food will be a States
prison offense. Aye, ali things shall 10 at
tuned, Elections in England aud the United
states VIII no more be n grand carnival OF
defamation and scurriIity, hut the elevation
OF righteous men in a righteous way
In the Sixteenth century fhe singers called
the htspfer brothers, reached the lowest bass
erec corded, and the highest note ever
thrilled was by la Bastsrdeila and Catalini's
voice had compass OF three and half Octaves
but Christianity is more wonderful. for IL runs
All up and down the greatest heights and the
deepest depths Of the worlds necessity. and
u VIII compass everything and bring 10 IN ac-
cord with the song which the morning stars
sang AZ the laying OF the world 3 cornerstone
Al tho sacred music in homes AMI concert
hals and CHURCHES tends toward this consun-
nation Make II more and more hearty.
sing ~ your families. Sing in your places
o. business. III we with proper spirit ugs
skies. ''
HEAVIER b TO have new song. an entirely
new song but / should not wonder M ~
sometimes on earth n tune is fashioned out 81
many tunes, or IL is one tune with tho varia-
atoms, 80 some Of tho songs OF the redeemed
may have playing through them tho songs of
earth, and how thrilling as coming throuof,
the great anthem OF the saved. accomnanie5
b, barpers with their harps, aud trurnpeters